Procedural Status of a Person in Respect of Whom Proceedings on the Application of Compulsory Medical Measures are Being Conducted

Relevance. Recently, at the level of international law and the legislation of individual states, there has been an active search for new approaches to ensuring the participation of mentally vulnerable persons in criminal proceedings. However, in the Russian criminal procedural science, the questions of determining the procedural status of a person in relation to whom proceedings on the application of compulsory medical measures are being conducted have not been sufficiently developed. The lack of modern conceptual approaches does not allow a qualitative change of the current legislation and complicates the activities of the law enforcement officer on all stages of the proceedings.
Purpose. Disclosure of the problems of normative consolidation of the procedural status of a person in respect of whom proceedings on the application of compulsory measures of a medical nature are underway, and determination of ways to solve these problems.
Objective: to reveal modern approaches to ensuring the rights of cognitively vulnerable subjects in the criminal process; identify a range of problems related to the normative consolidation of the procedural status of a person in relation to whom proceedings on the application of compulsory measures of a medical nature are being conducted; formulate proposals for changing the current criminal procedure law.
Methodology. In the process of working on the study, historical-legal, comparative-legal, formal-legal methods and general scientific methods of cognition (analysis, synthesis, analogy) were used.
Results. Proposals have been formulated to change the normative and doctrinal approaches to determining the procedural status of a person in relation to whom proceedings on the application of compulsory medical measures are being conducted.
Conclusion. Russian criminal procedural legislation requires significant reform, as a result of which the norms of Section 2 and Chapter 51 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation will be adjusted, which will make it possible to consolidate additional guarantees of the rights of persons with mental disorders. An additional study of the positive foreign experience in ensuring the legal interests of such persons and the development of a new concept of their exercise of their right to a fair trial is required.

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